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act, in exterminating the same. In case the owner or occupant of the 
premises shall refuse or neglect to comply with the orders of said 
inspector within five days, the inspector shall employ such aid as may 
be necessary to carry out his orders and recommendations, the expense 
of which procedure shall be certified to the township board and by 
them allowed, who shall cause the same to be assessed as a special tax 
upon the premises concerned. 
Sec. 10. The state inspector of orchards and nurseries shall have 
power to appoint such number of deputy inspectors as may be required, 
subject to approval by the state board of agriculture. 
Sec. 11. All expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, not 
otherwise provided for, shall be audited by the state board of agri¬ 
culture, and paid out of the general fund of the state, and the auditor- 
general shall draw his warrant for the same : Provided, That all moneys 
collected by the state board of agriculture, under this act, shall be paid 
into the general fund of the state treasury. 
THE McNAIR ORCHARDS. 
J. G. McNair of St. Louis is president and general manager 
of the St. Elmo Fruit Land Co. at Koshkonong, Mo., which 
has 20,000 Elberta peach trees in orchard at that point. The 
operations *of this company bid fair to rival those of the big 
fruit land companies of the South. 
Mr. McNair has the executive ability to manage large affairs, 
says The Southwest. He has the largest apple orchard in 
Illinois, 800 acres, and when he is through planting at St Elmo, 
where he has 2,000 acres, 800 of which are now in orchard, he 
will be the largest grower of fruit in the country. He has ex¬ 
ported apples to Liverpool and intends to send over a few car 
loads this year. 
The pear orchard contains 3,000 trees and the vineyard 
6,000 vines. Twenty-one acres have been planted to straw¬ 
berries. One hundred acres are being cleared and will be 
planted to peach trees this fall. The packing house is 92x80 
feet and is a model for business and convenience, there being 
room for 137 men and women to pack. There are seventeen 
houses in all on the plantation. 
Mr. McNair gave one order for peach carriers that amounted 
to $3,270 and he will have to buy ^1,000 worth more before 
shipping is over. During the height of the season 300 men 
will be employed to pick the peaches. Only careful hands can 
hold a position on this farm. The finest peaches will be 
wrapped in handsome paper. This farm has a trade mark 
and its fruit will be known as the Buffalo Brand. On every 
crate will be pasted the handsome card with the picture of a 
buffalo in bas relief on a peach with the name of the company 
and address encircling it. 
One of the most interesting features of the big farm is a 
herd of fourteen buffalos, one of the few herds on the conti¬ 
nent. 
PROFESSOR BAILEY AT HAMBURG. 
Professor L. H. Bailey, writing of his visit to the Hamburg 
exposition during the summer just closed, says: “ The exhibit 
impresses the American, perhaps, as being weak on the pom- 
ological side; but one is to remember that America is unusually 
strong in its fruits, and that the fruit season is not yet fully 
arrived. The vegetables also occupy a small space. In flori¬ 
culture, however, the exhibition is little less, it seems to me, 
than a marvel.” 
Professor Bailey believes that a good horticultural exhibi¬ 
tion in New York or Philadelphia would prove most successful. 
AMERICAN HORTICULTURE. 
In that admirable compilation, ‘‘One Hundred Years of 
American Commerce,” compiled under the editorial super¬ 
vision of Dr. Chauncey M. Depew, and published by D. O. 
Haynes & Co., New York, is included an article on ‘‘American 
Horticulture,” covering the period from 1795 to 1895. The 
article is by Alfred Henderson, of Peter Henderson & Co., 
New York. 
In looking over the field of literature on horticulture during 
the past one hundred years nothing very coherent or compre¬ 
hensive is found until Downing’s ‘‘Treatise oh the Theory and 
Practice of Landscape Gardening Adapted to North America” 
(1841), together with his “Rural Essays,” is reached. It is 
interesting to note that as long ago as 1858 Frederick Law 
Olmsted, the well-known landscape architect of the present 
day, in collaboration with Calvert Vaux, published a “Descrip¬ 
tion of a Plan for the Improvement of Central Park.” As 
pioneers who have helped in a large measure to bring the time- 
honored pursuit to its present state of importance, are cited 
Marshal P. Wilder, Robert Manning, Peter Henderson, Charles 
Downing, S. B. Parsons, P. Barry, George Ellwanger, John J. 
Thomas, Thomas Meehan, John C. Teas, F. K. Phoenix, A. S. 
Fuller. 
William Prince, Flushing, N. Y., was the pioneer nursery¬ 
man in the New World. In 1767 he offered for sale a large 
variety of fruit trees, “so packed that they can safely be sent 
to Europe.” It may not be too much to say that A. J. Down¬ 
ing created American ornamental horticulture. He had a 
worthy pupil in Frederick Law Olmsted. To Jacob Bigelow, 
of Boston, is due the original conception of the rural ceme¬ 
tery. 
CRIMSON RAMBLER ROSE. 
Writing from the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens to the 
Gardeners' Magazine, R. L. Harrow says: Although this 
.Japanese rose has proved itself perfectly hardy and of easy 
culture out of doors in this country; if grown as a greenhouse 
climber its season is lengthened, and it forms certainly one of 
the most attractive of plants to be seen under glass during 
May and June. A large plant has been in flower for more 
than a month in the corridor here, where it has eclipsed all the 
other occupants grown as climbers, and has attracted the at¬ 
tention of visitors. The bed it occupies is a somewhat re¬ 
stricted one (about two feet wide and as much in depth), and 
the rose is planted in pure loam of a rather heavy character. 
In that it seems to be perfectly established, and the long 
growths are produced in quantity, from which the large clust¬ 
ers of extra dark crimson flowers are formed at the apex. 
Where room can be afforded little pruning will be required, 
and at all times a good quantity of flowering growths should 
be left. When in flower they should be allowed to hang 
loosely and free, as in this way the full beauty of this variety 
is best displayed. 
It may be of interest to some to know that this plant first 
became generally known in a garden near Edinburgh, viz., 
that of the late Mr. Jenner, of Ester, Duddingston Lodge, by 
whom it was given to a nurseryman in Lincoln in 1889. But 
to Charles Turner is due the credit of introducing it to 
the public under the above name. 
